Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1, ascending to erect, uniformly short villoso-strigose, occasionally glabrate proximally.

basal and proximal cauline short-petiolate, blades broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, margins serrate, ± 3-nerved and pinnately nerved, abaxial faces (at least) evenly short villoso-strigose;

mid and distal cauline like proximal, 20–70 × 10–40 mm (1.3–2 times as long as wide), usually only those near arrays reduced and 1-nerved.

1–6 mm;

bracteoles ovate, minute, grading into phyllaries.

campanulate, 3–4.5 mm.

3–7;

laminae 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 mm.

4–7;

corollas (abruptly ampliate) 3–3.5 mm, lobes ca. 1 mm.

in 3 series, strongly unequal, obtuse or rounded;

mid broadly oblong, inner narrowly so.

30–200+, apparently sometimes drooping, in open leafy, secund pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, branches recurved, leafy-bracteate, secund, proximalmost branch sometimes separated by several nodes from next.

1.5–2 mm (4–8 translucent ribs), moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2–2.5 mm.

= 18.